Topic: Nine Inch Nails

Trying to emerge from Trent Reznor’s massive musical shadow is almost impossible. Plainly put, the man doesn’t have a following, he has an obsessive cult who will follow whatever artistic path he may take and will gladly jump into the fire’s central core. In his post-Nine Inch Nails band, How to Destroy Angels, he’s back to a Trent circa Downward Spiral. Not in the sound, but in the eerie feeling it creates when put on in a dark room. The feeling that spiders could crawl out of speakers or a rusty gear could lapse and the machine of life could spin uncontrollably all in time as the world ended. Continue...